Editing a template

Getting Started with Apache OpenOffice 4

Chapter 2: Using Styles and Templates

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• What is a Template?
• What Are Styles?
• Applying Styles
• Modifying Styles
• Creating New (Custom) Styles
• Copying and Moving Styles
• Deleting Styles
• Using a Template to Create a Document
• Creating a Template
• Adding Templates using the Extension Manager
• Editing a Template
• Changing the Template Assigned to a Document
• Setting a Default Template
• Organizing templates
• Examples of Style Use

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Editing a Template

You can edit a template's styles and content, and then, if you wish, you can reapply the template's styles to documents that were created from that template. You cannot reapply content.

To edit a template:

1. From the main menu, choose File → Templates → Edit. A file browser window opens.
2. Select the template that you want to edit and click  Open .
3. Edit the template as you would edit any other document. To save your changes, choose File → Save from the main menu.

Updating a Document from a Changed Template

The next time you open a document that was created from the changed template, a confirmation message appears.

Click Update Styles to apply the template's changed styles to the document, or click  Keep Old Styles  if you do not want to apply the changed styles to the document.

If you choose Keep Old Styles, the document is no longer connected to the template, even though the template is still listed under File → Properties → General. To connect the document to the template again, use the procedure described in “Changing the Template Assigned to a Document”.